As I mentioned in my about me page, I have been collecting infertility resources for quite a while now… I will use this page to list in one place all of the resources that I have linked to in various posts on this blog.
I also have many resources saved on my infertility journey board on pinterest. It has all of my online resources (blogs, information, humor, quotes, etc.) there for the taking!
Coping with infertility:
- Book: Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility; Janet Jaffe, Ph.D., Martha Ourieff Diamond, Ph.D., David J. Diamond, Ph.D.
- Book: Love and Infertility: Survival Strategies for Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life; Kristen Magnacca
- Resolve: The National Infertility Association
- Resolve Support Groups
- Tips for Coping with the Holidays
- Therapists’ top tips for coping with fertility problems
Supporting someone experiencing infertility:
- 25 Things to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone Living With Infertility
- 12 things not to say to someone with infertility
- Change The Question: An Invisible Mother’s Day Wish
- How can I support a friend with infertility
- How not to be a dick to your infertile friend
- How to sit with someone else’s pain
- Infertility etiquette 101
- “Just Relax” is the Worst Thing You Can Say
- Supporting an infertile friend — what not do to
- Understanding Validation
Coping with pregnancy loss:
- Book: There Was Supposed to be a Baby: A Guide to Healing After Pregnancy Loss; Catherine Noblitt Keating
- Book: Our Stories of Miscarriage: Healing with Words; Edited by Rachel Faldet and Karen Fitton
- Book: Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby; Deborah L. Davis
- Book: Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss; Ann Douglas and John S. Sussman, M.D.
- Coping after an ectopic pregnancy
- Honoring a baby who dies in pregnancy or infancy
Supporting someone after pregnancy and baby loss:
- How to Care for a Friend After Miscarriage or Stillbirth
- What to say to a friend who has just lost a baby
- 7 things you can do to support a friend after a miscarriage
- 10 ways to honor a friend’s child who has died
General / other infertility:
- 5 Surprisingly Outdated Problems Infertile Couples Face
- 6 Coping Techniques for Handling Jealousy with Infertility
- 10 Crappy Things They Don’t Tell You About IVF
- Fertility Treatment Stress (includes information on how stress doesn’t cause infertility)
- Infertility Jealousy
- It Happened to Me
- My Facebook Timeline Lies
- The Silent Hell of Infertility During the Holidays
- To the Girl With Baby on Her Christmas List
- What to Expect Along the Path of Conceiving with IVF
- Why Not Just Adopt?
- Book: The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood; Belle Boggs
- Book: The Couple’s Guide to In Vitro Fertilization; Liza Charlesworth
- Book: Infertility Sucks! Keeping It Together When Sperm and Egg Stubbornly Remain Apart; Beverly Barna
- Book: The IVF Journal; Stephanie Fry
- Book: Making Babies; Sami S. David, MD and Jill Blakeway, LAc
- Book: Silent Sorority: A (barren) Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found; Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
- Book: Waiting for Daisy; Peggy Orenstein
Blogs & Blogrolls:
- A little pregnant
- Blogroll at Creating a Family
- Stirrup Queens and their blogroll
- You Are Rooted: http://youarerooted.com/